Do Not Be Afraid_Photo by Neil Wissink
May 2012
Last month, I worked with artist Pablo Bronstein to choreograph his new commission for Tate Modern's Performance Room series. If you missed the live streaming of Constantinople Kaleidoscope, you can watch the archived video on Youtube here.
This month, as well as heading into the studio with Siobhan Davies to develop a new project alongside Charlie Morrissey and Andrea Buckley, I'll also be performing an extract of my duet Do Not Be Afraid at the GDA Cabaret in Greenwich on May 19.
Do Not Be Afraid is a “delightfully funny” duet (Londondance.com), in which I'm joined by Antonia Grove or Rachel Krische in donning superhero lycra to grapple with the notion that dance performers might possess the unique superpower of allowing an audience to see mind in body. Click here for a glimpse...
You can also catch This is it, my solo for Candoco Dance Company's Vicky Malin, forming part of the company's Turning 20 anniversary bill, in Dundee on May 25 and in Jersey on May 31.
Described as “wonderfully tongue in cheek” (What's On Stage Magazine), the work toys playfully with our expectations of a solo contemporary dance performer and features Vicky’s live performance of her specially-written, iTunes-released, uplifting euro-pop single This is it. You can read Southbank Centre's recent interview with Vicky and I about the work here.
Finally, look out for Dances With Purpose, the new folk dance-inspired group work I created for EDge Dance Company at The Place, at tour dates across the UK, Ireland, Austria and Portugal this spring and summer.
With warm wishes,
Matthias